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When is the right time? <ul><li>Are *you* ready? </li></ul><ul><li>The importance of the S curve </li></ul><ul><li>First-mover advantage? </li></ul><ul><li>Many entrepreneurs start too early in the window of opportunity </li></ul>

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Growing a business FOCUS. FOCUS. FOCUS. Pick the business that you want to be in. Period. Everything else is out of mind. Done. Finished. Gone. Just get on with it!

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Stockdale paradox = sisu <ul><li>Pure optimists don’t survive </li></ul><ul><ul><li>” Don’t believe your own PR” </li></ul></ul><ul><li>Pure pessimists don’t survive </li></ul><ul><ul><li>&quot;If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.&quot; - Henry Ford </li></ul></ul><ul><li>“ You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” — Admiral Jim Stockdale (POW in Vietnam) </li></ul>

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Being a startup CEO <ul><li>Knowing & accepting yourself </li></ul><ul><li>More humility than ego </li></ul><ul><li>Faith in people </li></ul><ul><li>Visionary & contagious optimism coupled with sustained ability to face the brutal truth </li></ul><ul><li>Ability to hire the best </li></ul><ul><li>Listening & experimenting </li></ul><ul><li>Inexperience can be a great asset </li></ul><ul><li>Ability to be engaged in making things happen, coupled with ability to detach and see the helicopter view </li></ul><ul><li>Relentless drive towards goals </li></ul><ul><li>Remember, it is a lonely job to be the CEO. </li></ul>

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Effective executive by Peter Drucker <ul><li>Great managers may be charismatic or dull, generous or tightfisted, visionary or numbers oriented. But every effective executive follows eight simple practices. </li></ul><ul><li>1. They ask “What needs to be done?” </li></ul><ul><li>2. They ask “What is right for the enterprise?” </li></ul><ul><li>3. They develop action plans </li></ul><ul><li>4. They take responsibility for decisions </li></ul><ul><li>5. They take responsibility for communicating </li></ul><ul><li>6. They are focused on opportunities rather than problems </li></ul><ul><li>7. They run productive meetings </li></ul><ul><li>8. They think and say “we” rather than “I” </li></ul>

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Effective team (by mgm) <ul><li>Great executive teams may be aggressive or conservative, intuitive or calculating, conflicted or harmonious. But every effective executive team follows eight practices: </li></ul><ul><li>Team members ask each other &quot;How can I support you?&quot; </li></ul><ul><li>Team members hold each other accountable while also allowing each one to show vulnerability. </li></ul><ul><li>The team practices open and authentic communication. </li></ul><ul><li>The team arrives at key decisions together through discussion, debate, and synthesis. </li></ul><ul><li>The team has fun. </li></ul><ul><li>Team members see success of the whole team as the best form of success. </li></ul><ul><li>The team operates at a strategic level and empowers the organization around them to make and execute operational decisions. </li></ul><ul><li>Each team member builds his/her own teams following these principles. </li></ul>

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Thoughts on success <ul><li>Shoot for the stars. Even if you fail, you’ll land on the moon. </li></ul><ul><li>Succeed in spite of your background, not thanks to it </li></ul><ul><li>Assets can turn into liabilities in an instance; liabilities can turn into assets over a long time </li></ul><ul><li>There are innumerable ways to fail, but there is also always more than one way to succeed </li></ul><ul><li>Quotes </li></ul><ul><ul><li>&quot;Fall seven times; stand up eight.&quot; — Japanese proverb </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>&quot;I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.&quot; — Michael Jordan </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>&quot;Full effort is full victory.&quot; — Mahatma Gandhi </li></ul></ul>

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Easy ways to fail <ul><li>“ The market is so big that 1% is enough for us.” </li></ul><ul><li>“ Actually, there are no competitors.” </li></ul><ul><li>“ Our product does, among other things, everything.” </li></ul><ul><li>Greed, fear </li></ul><ul><li>Falling in love with a product or idea, believing your own PR, not knowing your place </li></ul><ul><li>Lack of patience and endurance </li></ul><ul><li>Misjudging the scale of the challenge </li></ul><ul><li>Lack of “Excel Gymnastics” </li></ul><ul><li>Inability to deal with people </li></ul><ul><li>Not solving the customer’s problem </li></ul><ul><li>Not listening, not experimenting </li></ul><ul><li>Not removing toxic individuals </li></ul><ul><li>Failing to act on early signals </li></ul><ul><li>Blindly believing ”experts” </li></ul>and many more ...